CHANDLER, Ariz. — A man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel, according to
a police report released Wednesday.
Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy stole 400 pounds of marijuana from the cartel, which sent men to kidnap and kill him, according to the Chandler police
report.
Cota-Monroy was able to talk his way out of being killed, saying he'd pay back the money and use his house for collateral, the report says.
But the house wasn't Cota-Monroy's and he fled, leading the cartel to hire assassins to go to Arizona, befriend Cota-Monroy and kill him.
Cota-Monroy's body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple of feet away.
"It was a very gruesome scene," Chandler police Detective David Ramer said Wednesday. "Anytime you see a headless body stabbed multiple times,
obviously that's gruesome. And this is a message being sent — not only are they going to kill you but they're going to dismember your body, and 'If
you cross us, this is what happens.'"
Police said the cartel Cota-Monroy stole from is known as the PEI-Estatales/El Chapo drug trafficking organization.
One man, Crisantos Moroyoqui, has been charged in the killing, and three others are believed to have fled to Mexico.
The other suspects have been identified as Jose David Castro Reyes, 25; Isai Aguilar Morales, 22, and a man between the ages of 20 and 27 known only
by the nickname "El Joto," a derogatory Spanish term for a gay man.
[Edited on 3-3-2011 by Woooosh]krafty - 3-2-2011 at 07:34 PM
This happened in October and they are just getting around to putting it in the paper?Woooosh - 3-2-2011 at 08:15 PM
I don't think the USA is ready for this, not that delaying the news 5 months helped. The cartel hired assassins after the dead guy used a friends
house as collateral (that wasn't his). Here you have the first account of a stateside cartel beheading with hired assassins tracking the victim down.
Anyone who thought the USA would not mirror Mexico in cartel violence just has to wait for more. There will be more because nothing is being or can
be done to stop it. The place to stop it was at the porous border years ago- too late now, we own it too.monoloco - 3-2-2011 at 08:35 PM
Jeez, what was he thinking?Woooosh - 3-2-2011 at 09:29 PM
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Originally posted by monoloco
Jeez, what was he thinking?
These guys live day to day with no retirement plan. I doubt he thought trained assassins would track him down in Arizona. Sounds like the cartel
took care of business with no one else involved.
I hope acceptance of this level of violence never becomes acceptable, but the internet age has made communication of it inevitable.
